Stealth Communications Announces Registry to Avoid Access Fees Posted on: 04/23/2004 Stealth Communications Inc. today announced the official launch of a registry that allows service providers routing calls over the Internet to avoid paying local phone companies access charges. The VPF ENUM Registry allows carriers to map telephone numbers to IP addresses for such things as SIP phones and e-mail servers, Stealth announced at telx's Customer Business Exchange meeting in New York City. A phone call routed to a number listed in the registry would be terminated over the Internet, rather than over the traditional phone network controlled by the regional Bells and other local exchange carriers. The registry "has the potential to drastically reduce the operating expenses of VoIP carriers because it allows them to terminate directly on each others network at zero cost," Stealth Founder and CEO Shrihari Pandit said. Stealth says the registry, which holds more than 1 million numbers, is not limited to service providers. Educational institutions, municipal governments and businesses can use the registry, it said. According to the company, current participants include Acropolis Telecom, Addaline.Com, Free World Dialup, MIT, Net2Phone, Packet8 and Yale University. http://www.phoneplusmag.com/hotnews/44h2316756.html http://www.thevpf.com/pr/2004-04-01-VPF-ENUM.pdf http://www.stealth.net/
Jim/frank, Can you give us more information about how to access this enum? I've been to the stealth web site and there is no information about access. I look forward with interest to what you have up and running today for asterisk users to benefit from. Cheers, Dean -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of jimfl Sent: Saturday, 1 May 2004 6:03 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] New ENUM service, what do you think? Stealth Communications Announces Registry to Avoid Access Fees Posted on: 04/23/2004 Stealth Communications Inc. today announced the official launch of a registry that allows service providers routing calls over the Internet to avoid paying local phone companies access charges. The VPF ENUM Registry allows carriers to map telephone numbers to IP addresses for such things as SIP phones and e-mail servers, Stealth announced at telx's Customer Business Exchange meeting in New York City. A phone call routed to a number listed in the registry would be terminated over the Internet, rather than over the traditional phone network controlled by the regional Bells and other local exchange carriers. The registry "has the potential to drastically reduce the operating expenses of VoIP carriers because it allows them to terminate directly on each others network at zero cost," Stealth Founder and CEO Shrihari Pandit said. Stealth says the registry, which holds more than 1 million numbers, is not limited to service providers. Educational institutions, municipal governments and businesses can use the registry, it said. According to the company, current participants include Acropolis Telecom, Addaline.Com, Free World Dialup, MIT, Net2Phone, Packet8 and Yale University. http://www.phoneplusmag.com/hotnews/44h2316756.html http://www.thevpf.com/pr/2004-04-01-VPF-ENUM.pdf http://www.stealth.net/ _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Reid A. Forrest
2004-May-01 03:21 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] New ENUM service, what do you think?
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Yes but no information about how this will operate, what regulation or restrictions on joining, what connection protocols will be used etc etc Cheers, Dean -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Reid A. Forrest Sent: Saturday, 1 May 2004 8:21 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] New ENUM service, what do you think?
>if too many of these services get up its just as bad a space >as we were in before.Agreed, since they have signed up Packet8 and Net2Phone they have a pretty good head start as far as US VOIP providers. It will be interesting to see if/what Vonage, VoicePulse, CallVantage (AT&T), BroadVoice, do. Jim